Lyric Theater (Miami)

Lyric Theater
Lyric Theater
Location within Miami
Lyric Theater
Lyric Theater (Florida)
Lyric Theater
Lyric Theater (the United States)
Address819 NW Second Avenue
LocationMiami, Florida
Coordinates25°46′54.8″N 80°11′52.8″W / 25.781889°N 80.198000°W / 25.781889; -80.198000
Public transitHistoric Overtown/Lyric Theatre
OwnerThe Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South FL, Inc.
Capacity390
Construction
Opened1913 (1913)
Renovated1999, 2005, 2014
Website
www.bahlt.org
Lyric Theater
Architectural styleVernacular masonry
MPSDowntown Miami MRA
NRHP reference No.88002965
Added to NRHPJanuary 4, 1989

The Lyric Theater is a historic theater in Miami, Florida at 819 Northwest Second Avenue. It served Miami's African American community. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places after being proposed by Dorothy Jenkins Fields.

Renamed the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater Cultural Arts Complex (BAHLT), it is considered the oldest legitimate theater in Miami. Located west of Miami's downtown business district, it is a central focus for the Historic Overtown Folklife Village and a center of both black cultural pride and economic renewal.